Who are you, and who is the other? The things we don’t like in others, because that person is different. The weather we like, the weather we dislike. The thoughts we like, the thoughts we dislike. The known in the …

We each have roughly 50,000 – 70,000 thoughts per day, being 35 – 48 thoughts each minute per person. Some research suggests 98 percent of those thoughts are the same ones we experienced yesterday. Such is the circular nature of …

Athletes spend a lot of time trying to understand. The problem is that they try to understand too much, in their exuberance they read too much. They put too much enthusiasm into the researching, and not enough into the actual …

Sports psychologists often talk about arousal levels, and the effect arousal has on the nervous system. Levels of apathy or anxiety brought on by not enough, or too much mental projection. Then often a cognitive thought based practise is …

What is the source of society’s anxiety, individuality or difference of ideology? Societies absolute terror of individuality. There is much more to society than manicured lawns, clean cars, and wearing the same clothes as everyone else to keep up with …

Pain is Subjective I often listen to athletes talking about their level of pain that builds up during a race, and they often ask what they can do about it. We seem to feel that any physical symptom that arises …

Pressure is an anomaly I have been working with for more years than I’d care to remember. I’d imagine that all coaches invariably deal with athletes who feel like they are under pressure. What most athletes, and even coaches can’t …

It’s a simple question and there is a simple answer, but not the one you would expect. “People take Performance enhancing drugs (PEDS) because they are cheats”, that’s the party line right? Bad people, or simply misguided? How about this …

As a species, we are now more than ever in the crux of an identity crisis. Our social support structures have shrunk, as we have pushed forwards with an ever increasing focus on the speed of Progress. Issues such as …